How J.K. Rowling Became Dolores Umbridge
Won’t someone think of this poor abused billionaire
This week, we’re discussing the New York Times’s openly (and now defiantly) anti-transgender coverage. Specifically, writer Pamela Paul wrote an op-ed titled “In Defense of J.K. Rowling,” where she absurdly depicted the billionaire author as a victim on par with Salman Rushdie. Trans people asserting their right to exist are obviously not issuing a fatwa against their oppressors.
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I've always been an equal opportunity dater when it comes to age.
I was going to the Fashion Institute of Technology in the 1980s when that kid disappeared. I had a weird feeling that he'd been killed in an S&M murder. Then when Crispo was implicated it turned out that one of his proteges was a guy who was one of my friend's art dealers. I also used to go to the Limelight where the kid disappeared. Then when I moved back to Charleston, Andrew Crispo had bought a house here and then didn't pay a dime in mortgage payments and it was foreclosed, and then it sold to some NYC banker. I remember he put a $500K down payment on the house, and at the time you could buy a nice mansion here for that price. He thought he was going to move to the most snobbish, insular society in America to get away from the bad publicity. Not a smart move!
Years after he got chased out of town, I met the people who had lived next door to him. They said he was really creepy. Apparently he's still alive, but Wiki doesn't say where.
From Wiki: "Andrew Crispo is a former owner of the historic Pineapple Gate House[25] (known formally as Simmons-Edwards House) in Charleston, South Carolina." Too bad he didn't hang on to that house since it's worth about $15 million now.
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